氧氣頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐畢業(yè)設(shè)計外文翻譯

1、<p><b>　　外文翻譯</b></p><p>　　計算流體動力學(xué)和動態(tài)耦合熱力學(xué)軟件</p><p><b>　　在頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐中的應(yīng)用</b></p><p>　　Mikael ERSSON, Lars HÖGLUND, Anders TILLIANDER,</p><p>

2、;　　Lage JONSSON and Pär JÖNSSON</p><p>　　應(yīng)用程序冶金部，皇家技術(shù)學(xué)院（KTH）</p><p>　　SE-10044，瑞典首都斯德哥爾摩。</p><p>　?。?007年11月8日收到，2007年12月10日接受）</p><p>　　一種新的建模方法被提出，這種建模方法是使用

3、計算流體力學(xué)軟件相連結(jié)熱力學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)庫以獲取動態(tài)模擬冶金過程的現(xiàn)象。這種建模方法已被應(yīng)用在一個基本的氧氣頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐模型。通過各種氣體之間的反應(yīng)研究。 結(jié)果表明,大量的表面氣體的流通是完全受對流控制的。此外，在這個過程中大量產(chǎn)生的CO脫碳可能會放慢從浴缸噴出的液滴的脫碳率。在目前的模擬反映實驗室的實驗條件下，這點也被證實在這個過程中所產(chǎn)生的爐渣（FeO和/或SiO2）接近于零，即只產(chǎn)生的氣體（二氧化碳CO2）就好比是氧氣射流擊中鋼液。它也說明如

4、何從幾秒鐘的采樣推算脫碳速度， 只要是含碳量足夠的高可以在后期的時候做含碳量的模擬，從而得到的碳含量的粗略估計。總的結(jié)論是，通過Thermo-Calc的數(shù)據(jù)庫和CFD軟件的動態(tài)耦合來達到冶金動態(tài)模擬是有可能的。</p><p>　　關(guān)鍵詞：轉(zhuǎn)爐;計算流體力學(xué)，熱力學(xué)建模;爐渣和動態(tài)模擬。</p><p>　　介紹在許多涉及氧氣噴射撞擊到鋼液面的冶金過程中，為了優(yōu)化涉及動力學(xué)的部分，如脫碳

5、，底層流體動力學(xué)是需要的。現(xiàn)在對于這個問題已經(jīng)幾個實驗報告和一些數(shù)值或計算流體動力學(xué)（CFD）的報告。Szekely and Asai已經(jīng)介紹了一種將液體的沖擊射流表面的計算模型。Ngyen and Evans通過使用這種方法計算溶池噴嘴直徑比液體表面所造成變形的沖擊射流的影響，張等人模仿了一種同時使用頂吹和底吹復(fù)合吹煉的情況。Odenthal等人展示了一種頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐多相CFD模型，在這種頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐中由于沖擊射流以及底部和頂部轉(zhuǎn)換混合時存在

6、飛濺現(xiàn)象。Nakazono等人描述了鐵液表面的超音速氧氣噴射沖擊時的含碳量的兩階段的數(shù)值分析。通過計算表明在真空和表面處理條件下天然氣和鋼鐵之間的變化。該模型采用穩(wěn)態(tài)方法無飛濺等。在其他文獻中還其他非頂吹CFD模型介紹，瓊森等。提出了硫精煉耦合計算流體力學(xué)和熱力學(xué)模型</p><p>　　熱力學(xué)是成立的在CFD程序中作為一個自定義的子程序，尤其是專門為調(diào)查系統(tǒng)所寫的子程序。圖中1可以看到這樣的做法一個示意圖。&l

7、t;/p><p>　　圖1。合并計算流體力學(xué)和熱力學(xué)建模與數(shù)值模型方法的示意圖。由文獻（14）</p><p>　　最近包含頂吹系統(tǒng)CFD模型已經(jīng)出現(xiàn)并和實驗數(shù)據(jù)進行比較，這里提出，這個模型是包括氣/液/渣的流體體積（VOF）等反應(yīng)擴展的一個多相流模型，這個模型適用于頂吹系統(tǒng)。</p><p>　　這個模型以及各個階段的擴展已經(jīng)獲得批準使用這一方法所建的裝備使得終于有一

8、個可以說明基本的頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐模型結(jié)果。2。數(shù)值模型目前的建模方法如圖2所示。</p><p>　　圖2。合并數(shù)值模型方法的示意圖</p><p>　　為了解決新的研究可以輕易的合并到這個模型的問題建立了以模塊化的方式，這也意味著，當從一個系統(tǒng)變到另一個系統(tǒng)是只需要一個很小的重編程程序，只要是熱力學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)在目前的熱力學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)庫中是存在的以及不超過CFD軟件的運算能力。這個模擬過程已經(jīng)在包含6個節(jié)

9、點的集群的Linux PC上執(zhí)行?，F(xiàn)實生活中的模擬時間是和運算系統(tǒng)的數(shù)量相關(guān)的，所以沒有固定和典型的模擬時間;它可能會在一小時和10天的實時變化亦或是10秒的時間。在圖3中可以看出其物理域和數(shù)值域的原理。</p><p>　　圖3。頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐示意圖。 a）物理域b）數(shù)值域。所涉及的邊界條件為入口速度，出口壓力，無滑墻壁和對稱軸。所有的墻壁都用標準壁面函數(shù)表示，合理的k–e模型已使用在所有的例子中。域的寬度為0.0

10、75米，高度是0.13米。最開始，1500°C的15.6公斤距頂槍0.01米以上的鋼熔液用來試驗，大量的氣體從入口吹入相當于25升/分鐘的純體積流量氧氣。用于模擬的表1中的各種參數(shù)可以看出和表2中的初始濃度的不同。</p><p>　　表1.不同階段密度和擴散系數(shù)</p><p><b>　　表2.初始濃度</b></p><p>&

11、lt;b>　　2.1。差價</b></p><p>　　ANSYS軟件同時也被使用，這是一個為計算求解流體體積、質(zhì)量的有限元分析軟件，這樣動量守恒方程中所涉及的質(zhì)量、體積都得到了解決。根據(jù)湍流模型同時使用了一些額外的守恒方程作為補充,例如湍流動能守恒,k,和動蕩能量耗散,e,都是用標準的k-e 模型，下面的公式用來計算任何形式的</p><p>　　這里r是密度,u是指速

12、度矢量,當基于雷諾茲平均使用湍流模型,G是擴散系數(shù),正如從表3中看到的一樣方程(1)和表3描述了質(zhì)量、動量、湍流動能,動蕩能量耗散、能量、物質(zhì)和體積分數(shù)。</p><p><b>　　表3守恒方程參數(shù)</b></p><p><b>　　2.2熱計算</b></p><p>　　為了獲得準確描述了熱力學(xué)特征，軟件Therm

13、o-Calc被使用使用。這是一個通用的軟件方案的多組分的相平衡計算。它使用一種技術(shù),它允許非常靈活的設(shè)置條件的平衡狀態(tài),從而適用過程模擬。</p><p>　　問題的解決方法是以下。第一,質(zhì)量和熱量含量分別計算每個階段。然后,總質(zhì)量和熱量的內(nèi)容是總結(jié)。該系統(tǒng)是氫原子核裝備中的。最后,程序?qū)⒂嬎愀麟A段溫度,新的成分和含量。</p><p>　　能與熱力學(xué)的軟件應(yīng)用程序編程接口使用TQ操作。這

14、個接口是一個接口Thermo-Calc中可用的軟件包,使其能要推廣實施不同系統(tǒng)(例如組件和元素,該系統(tǒng)由),而無需更改代碼。</p><p>　　2.3. 耦合和假設(shè)</p><p>　　其目在于CFD-package和Thermo-Calc數(shù)據(jù)庫軟件兩個軟件的耦合,是創(chuàng)建一個通用的計算模型,包括化學(xué)反應(yīng)冶金系統(tǒng)。在下面的文本描述的耦合。主要的假設(shè)是局部均衡、每個時間步可以到達每個計算單元

15、的過程中,。軟件之間的接口CFD-package和熱力學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)庫分別被編碼在C和FORTRAN。</p><p><b>　　2.4．多相考慮</b></p><p>　　所有的散裝階段的建模為不可壓縮;有統(tǒng)一的密度,見表1。與一個精化的模型應(yīng)該有可能使用一個理想氣體定律假設(shè)對氣態(tài)和一些溫度對鋼密度模型的依賴。簡要地說明一些細節(jié)的功能假設(shè)一摩爾的氧和碳反應(yīng)形成的融化2摩

16、爾的一氧化碳。在計算單元在考慮將會有一個擴張的氣相到約兩倍于原體積。這反過來將很可能意味著氣體向外擴張的計算單元。如果再加上CFD,擴張將發(fā)生在以下步驟中,作為額外的氣體質(zhì)量被添加到細胞源項。經(jīng)過計算細胞已經(jīng)達到平衡它也將會有一個特定的溫度平衡溫度。</p><p><b>　　3.結(jié)論</b></p><p>　　3.1.基本頂級吹轉(zhuǎn)爐</p><

17、;p>　　在圖5顯示氣體射流向量的情況,正如水落在鋼鐵溶液中所顯示的那樣。這是看到射流失去其軸向沖擊就好像其滴落在剛?cè)芤罕砻?。從射流中來的低流量給出了一個相對較小的滲透率在鋼鐵溶液中。</p><p>　　圖6說明了流場的鋼鐵浴引起碰撞射流。目前的最高速度的射流沖擊的鋼液面和面積。流體措施阻止了滲透區(qū)向墻壁,然后進入到鋼液中。一個大型的循環(huán),循環(huán)中形成的沖擊流(即軸和墻之間)和幾個小的循環(huán)回路。應(yīng)該指出的是

18、,在更大的循環(huán)級速度是非常小的。這是由于低流量來自高層的射擊流。更高的流率呈現(xiàn)較大的滲透和較強的循環(huán)。</p><p>　　圖5.在氣體速度矢量。矢量有固定長度;他們是由色彩反映速度級(m / s)。</p><p>　　圖6.速度向量在鋼液中的變現(xiàn)，矢量有固定長度;他們速度級有色彩反映</p><p>　　圖7展示了碳在1、2、3和5s時在鋼液里的濃度。首先氣體的

19、射流量應(yīng)該注意,只有在相當狹窄的范圍內(nèi)才能看到的結(jié)果。這是故意為了使少量濃度的差異在一定范圍內(nèi)可見。同時可以看到圖7(a),碳濃度</p><p>　　梯度存在于一個小區(qū)域接近自由面面積以及在一個更大的地區(qū)的右邊的滲透區(qū)當仔細觀察圖7時。7(a)-7(d),它的變化就會更明顯,規(guī)模更大的向爐壁發(fā)展混合,且隨著時間變得更大。從圖之間可以看到碳濃度在不斷地減小。從7(a)-7(d)看來,鋼液實在表面混合運動(參見圖6

20、),隨后由于循環(huán)模式出現(xiàn)在中下部出現(xiàn),而且呈現(xiàn)紊流的混合。碳濃度高的鋼的深度只有幾毫米的滲透區(qū);然而真正的大梯度出現(xiàn)在一個更薄的地區(qū)靠近自由表面。漸漸地,隨著流場的發(fā)展,再循環(huán)趨向爐壁。</p><p>　　圖7a.鋼中碳的質(zhì)量分數(shù).1 s模擬時間</p><p>　　圖7 b.鋼中碳的質(zhì)量分數(shù).2 s模擬時間</p><p>　　圖7 c.鋼中碳的質(zhì)量分數(shù).3s模

21、擬時間</p><p>　　圖7 d.鋼中碳的質(zhì)量分數(shù).5s模擬時間</p><p>　　圖8.CO的質(zhì)量分數(shù)5s模擬時間。</p><p>　　圖8展示了在氣相中CO氣體濃度呈現(xiàn)的規(guī)律。射流所覆蓋的鋼液的表面幾乎完全充滿氧氣所以幾乎沒有CO的存在,除了一個薄層旁邊的鋼液表面。CO氣體數(shù)量則會變得更明顯的逐漸減少距離爐壁附近。</p><p>

22、;<b>　　4.結(jié)論</b></p><p>　　一個新的建模方法,提出了采用CFD軟件已經(jīng)耦合熱力學(xué)數(shù)據(jù)庫(Thermo-Calc)使用自定義子例程獲得動態(tài)模擬冶金過程的現(xiàn)象。gas-steel之間的反應(yīng),gas-slag,steel-slag和gas-steel-slag一直被認為在一個基本的模型頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐。 最后的結(jié)論是,它可能是一個動態(tài)的耦合Thermo-Calc數(shù)據(jù)庫和CFD軟件進

23、行動態(tài)模擬的冶金過程如頂吹轉(zhuǎn)爐。</p><p>　　具體的結(jié)論來自高層的吹轉(zhuǎn)爐模擬包括:</p><p>　　(1)紊流擴散的氣體中不可忽視的要考慮射流沖擊面積的影響。</p><p>　　(2)大量一氧化碳脫碳期間可能會減慢鋼液中鋼的脫碳速度。</p><p>　　(3)可以使用脫碳速度的推斷,對一個幾秒鐘的仿真,得到的粗略估計碳含量在隨

24、后階段過程中只要碳含量相對較高(比較下一點)。</p><p>　　(4)對當前系統(tǒng)來說，大約3%碳在鋼的初始的渣中。FeO或二氧化硅了接近于零即只要氣體(COCO2)在鋼液中的含量足夠的多。找出濃度的結(jié)合,流動速率和溫度下,呈現(xiàn)最高效脫碳,未來會有更進一步的參數(shù)研究。</p><p><b>　　確認</b></p><p>　　這個工作是由

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37、Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics Software: Applied on a Top Blown Converter</p><p>　　Mikael ERSSON, Lars HÖGLUND, Anders TILLIANDER, Lage JONSSON and Pär JÖNSSON</p><p>　　Divisio

38、n of Applied Process Metallurgy, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.(Received on November 8, 2007; accepted on December 10, 2007)A novel modeling approach is presented where a computational

39、fluid dynamics software is coupled to thermodynamic databases to obtain dynamic simulations of metallurgical process phenomena. The modeling approach has been used on a fundamental model of a top-blown converter. Reactio

40、ns between gas–steel, gas–slag, steel–slag and gas–st</p><p>　　KEY WORDS: BOF; CFD; thermodynamics; modeling; slag and dynamic simulations.</p><p>　　1. Introduction</p><p>　　In many

41、 metallurgical processes involving an oxygen-jet impinging onto a steel bath surface, a good understanding of the underlying fluid dynamics is desirable in order to optimize the involved kinetics such as decarburization.

42、 There have been several experimental reports on the subject for instance1–7) and also some numerical or Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) reports.8–13) Szekely and Asai8) presented a computational model of a jet imping

43、ing onto a liquid surface. Ngyen and Evans investigat</p><p>　　2. Numerical Model</p><p>　　The current modeling approach is seen in Fig. 2. It is built in a modular fashion in order to ease the

44、incorporation of new research into the model. This also means that very little reprogramming is necessary when changing from one system to another, as long as the thermodynamic data is present in the thermodynamic databa

45、se and the capabilities of the CFD software is not exceeded. The simulations have been performed on a Linux PC cluster containing 6 nodes. The real-life simulation time has been</p><p>　　Fig. 1. Schematic of

46、 a numerical model approach with combined CFD and thermodynamics modeling. From Ref. 14).</p><p>　　Fig. 2. Schematic of a numerical model approach with combined CFD and thermodynamics modeling. Modular appro

47、ach that uses databases from the Thermo-Calc software.</p><p>　　Fig. 3. Schematic of top blown converter. a) Physical Domain b) Numerical Domain.</p><p>　　simulation. In Fig. 3 a schematic of th

48、e physical and numerical domains can be seen. The boundary conditions used are velocity inlet, pressure outlet, no-slip walls and symmetry axis. Standard wall functions have been used for both walls.18,19) The realizable

49、 k–e model20) has been used in all examples. The domain width is 0.075 m and the height is 0.13 m. Initially, a 15.6 kg steel-melt is introduced with a temperature of 1 500°C. From the top lance, placed 0.01 m above

50、 the steel, a mass flow in</p><p><b>　　2.1. CFD</b></p><p>　　The Ansys Fluent software has been used which is a commercial finite volume solver used for computational fluid dynamics.

51、19) Conservation equations of mass, momentum, energy and species are solved. Depending on the turbulence model used some extra conservation equations are added, for instance conservation of turbulence kinetic energy, k,

52、and turbulence energy dissipation, e , as prescribed in the standard k–e model.18) The following form is used for transport of any property f :</p><p>　　where r is the density, u is the mean velocity vector,

53、 when using a turbulence model based on Reynolds Averaging, G is the diffusion coefficient and Sf is the source term, as can be seen in Table 3. Equation (1) and Table 3 describes the transport of; mass, momentum, turbul

54、ence kinetic energy,</p><p>　　turbulence energy dissipation, energy, species and volumefraction.</p><p>　　2.2. Thermo-Calc</p><p>　　In order to obtain an accurate description of the

55、 thermodynamics the software Thermo-Calc21) is used. This is a general software package for multi-component phase equilibrium calculations. It uses a technique that allows for a very flexible setting of conditions for th

56、e equilibrium state thus being suitable for use with process simulations. The method of solution is the following. First, the mass</p><p>　　and heat content in each phase is calculated separately. Then, the

57、total mass and heat content is summed up. The system is thereafter equilibrated. Finally, the program calculates the temperature, new compositions and amounts of the phases. To communicate with the thermodynamic software

58、 an</p><p>　　application programming interface TQ21) is used. This interface is one of the interfaces available within the Thermo- Calc software package21) and makes it possible to generalize the implementat

59、ion of different system (e.g. the components and elements that the system consists of) without</p><p>　　changing the code.</p><p>　　2.3. Coupling and Assumptions</p><p>　　The aim wi

60、th the coupling of the two softwares, the CFD-package and the Thermo-Calc database software, is to create a general numerical model for metallurgical systems including chemical reactions. In the following text the coupli

61、ng will be described. The major assumption is that local</p><p>　　equilibrium can be reached in each computational cell during the course of each time step. The software interface between the CFD-package and

62、 the thermodynamic databases is coded in C and FORTRAN, respectively.</p><p>　　2.4. Multiphase Considerations</p><p>　　All bulk phases have been modeled as incompressible; having uniform density

63、, see Table 1. With a refinement of the model it should be possible to use an ideal gas law as- sumption for the gas phase and some temperature and composition dependent density model for the steel and the slag</p>

64、<p>　　phases. To briefly explain some specifics of the functionality</p><p>　　assume that one mole of oxygen reacts with carbon in the melt to form 2 mole of carbon monoxide. In the computational cell

65、 under consideration there will be an expansion of the gas phase to roughly twice the original volume. This in turn will most likely mean that the gas expands outside</p><p>　　the computational cell. When co

66、upled with CFD, the expansion will occur in the following time step, as the extra gas mass is added to the cell as source term. After a computational cell has reached equilibrium it will also have a specific temperature–

67、the equilibrium temperature. Assumptions:</p><p>　　a) Thermodynamic equilibrium can be reached in each cell during any time step.</p><p>　　b) The densities of gas/steel/slag are constant in time

68、 and space.</p><p>　　c) Equilibrium needs only to be calculated in cells containing at least two phases. A schematic of the coupling and the solution procedure can be seen in Fig. 4.</p><p>　　Fi

69、g. 5. Velocity vector plot in gas. Vectors have a fixed length; instead they are colored by velocity magnitude (m/s).</p><p>　　Fig. 6. Velocity vector plot in the steel. Vectors have a fixedlength; instead t

70、hey are colored by velocity magnitude(m/s).</p><p>　　Fig. 7a. Mass fraction of carbon in steel. 1 s simulation time.</p><p>　　Fig. 7b. Mass fraction of carbon in steel. 2 s simulation time.</

71、p><p>　　Fig. 7c. Mass fraction of carbon in steel. 3 s simulation time.</p><p>　　Fig. 7d. Mass fraction of carbon in steel. 5 s simulation time.</p><p>　　Fig. 8. Mass fraction of CO in

72、 the gas phase. 5 s simulation time.</p><p>　　3. Results</p><p>　　3.1. Fundamental Top Blown Converter</p><p>　　In Fig. 5 vector plot showing the gas jet, as it impinges on the stee

73、l bath, is shown. It is seen that the jet looses its axial momentum as it hits the bath surface. The low flow rate from the lance gives a relatively small penetration in the steel bath. Figure 6 illustrates the flow fiel

74、d in the steel bath caused by the impinging oxygen jet. The highest velocities are present where the jet hits the bath and in the surface area. The fluid moves from the penetration zone towards the wall and then</p>

75、;<p>　　Figure 7 illustrates the carbon concentration in the bath at times 1, 2, 3 and 5 s. First of all the plotting limits should be noted, where it can be seen that the range of the plot is quite narrow. This is

76、 intentional in order to make the small concentration differences visible over the range of plotting</p><p>　　colors used. It can be seen from Fig. 7(a) that a carbon concentration gradient exists in a small

77、 region close to the free surface area as well as in a larger region to the right of the penetration zone. When examining Figs. 7(a)–7(d) it becomes evident that the larger region moves towards the wall</p><p&

78、gt;　　of the converter and that it also becomes larger with time. The carbon concentration in the moving region slowly decreases between Figs. 7(a)–7(d). It seems that the decarburized steel is transported along the surfa

79、ce (see Fig. 6) and subsequently dragged down into the bath due to the recirculation</p><p>　　pattern present in the flow and because of turbulent</p><p>　　mixing. The depth of the decarburized

80、steel is only a few millimeters in the penetration zone; however the really large gradients appear in an even thinner region close to the free surface. Gradually, as the flow field develops, the recirculation zone moves

81、towards the wall. Figure 8 illustrates the CO gas concentration present in the gas phase. The region where the jet impinges on the steel surface is almost exclusively filled with O2 so no CO is present there, except for

82、a thin layer right nex</p><p>　　5. Conclusions</p><p>　　A new modeling approach has been presented where a CFD software has been coupled to a thermodynamic database (Thermo-Calc) using custom su

83、broutines to obtain possible to make a dynamic coupling of the Thermo-Calc databases and the CFD software to make dynamic simulations of metallurgical processes such as a top-blown converter. Specific conclusions from

84、the top blown converter simulations include:</p><p>　　(1) Turbulent diffusion of species can not be neglected when considering the species transport in the surface area.</p><p>　　(2) The large a

85、mount of CO produced during the decarburization might slow down the rate of decarburization in droplets ejected from the bath.</p><p>　　(3) It is possible to use extrapolation of the decarburization rate, sa

86、mpled from a few seconds of simulation, to get a rough estimate of the carbon content at a later stage in the process as long as the carbon content is relatively high (compare next point).</p><p>　　(4) For t

87、he current system, concentrations of about 3 mass% carbon in the steel yields no initial amount of slag. FeO and/or SiO2 created are close to zero i.e. only gas (CO_CO2) is created as the oxygen jet hits the steel bath.

88、To find out the combination of concentrations, flow rates and temperatures that renders the most efficient decarburization, a future parametric study would be of interest.</p><p>　　Acknowledgements</p>

89、<p>　　This work was financially supported by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF) and the Swedish steel industry through the Centre for Computational Thermodynamics (CCT).</p><p>　　Nome

90、nclature</p><p>　　D0 : Molecular mass diffusivity [m2 s_1]</p><p>　　Dt: Turbulent mass diffusivity [m2 s_1]</p><p>　　e: Turbulence dissipation [m2 s_3]</p><p>　　fC : Ma

91、ss fraction carbon in steel</p><p><b>　　f?</b></p><p>　　C: Mass-weighted average mass fraction carbon in</p><p><b>　　steel</b></p><p>　　g : Grav

92、itational acceleration [m s_2]</p><p>　　k: Turbulence kinetic energy [m2 s_2]</p><p><b>　　ki</b></p><p>　　0 : Diffusion coefficient of species i [kgm_1 s_1]</p>&

93、lt;p><b>　　kc</b></p><p>　　eff: Effective thermal conductivity [Wm_1K_1]</p><p>　　m : Molecular viscosity [kgm_1 s_1]</p><p>　　n : Kinematic viscosity [m2 s_1]</p&g

94、t;<p>　　m˙ : Mass rate of change [kg s_1]</p><p>　　Ni : Number of phases</p><p>　　Nk : Number of scalars in the phase k</p><p>　　f : General transported property</p>&

95、lt;p><b>　　f i</b></p><p>　　k : Scalar k in phase i</p><p>　　P : Pressure [Nm_2]</p><p>　　Pe : Cell Peclét number</p><p>　　Prt: Turbulent Prandtl num

96、ber</p><p>　　r : Density [kgm_3]</p><p>　　Sf : Source term for general property f</p><p>　　Sct: Turbulent Scmidt number (here assumed_0.7)</p><p>　　ur : Radial velocity

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